The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-08-16
Wilhelm Won NJ,
Litterateur and Danseuse.

On the back of the card the Won
Nyj arms had been emblazoned with
a rubber stamp. Down stairs, near
the dais of the night clerk, stood
gayly caparisoned yet cultivated
cuss, porting over a late volume of
the city directory. He was the
author of these lines.
Scarcely an hour had elapsed
when tinted page, who waits on
the Queen, slid down the stair rail
and told me Her Royal Highness
would receive me in state as soon as
she could change her dress.
Later on / was ushered' into
the presence of Queen Kapiolani,
lEho was at the time accompanied
w her suite and another gentleman
whose name did not learn.
She is a distinguished looking
} woman of middle age, but in APP
parent good health, and with a con-
stitution which l think would easily
endure the fatigue of reigning over
much larger country than her
own.
As l entered the room and made
low, groveling obeisance, an act that
is wholly foreign to my nature, the
Queen made rapid movement to-
ward the bell, but l held her back
and assured her that did not
drink.
We then chatted gayly for some
time in relation to the Sandwich
business and court matters, includ-
ing the Sharp trial.
For long time the Queen seemed
constrained, and evidently could not
think of anything to say, but she
soon saw that / was not naughty or
reserved, and when at last she re-
luctanty showed me out and locked
the door, L felt amply repaid for the
annoyance that one naturally feels
on visiting perfect stranger.
From what she said regarding her
dynasty, l gather that it consists of
a Covey of half-grown islands in the
Pacific, inhabited by people who
were once benighted and carniver-
q BUS, but happy. Now they are well
Informed and bilious, while they
revel in suspenders and rum, with
all the blessings of late hours, civil
cation and suicide.
The better classes Of the Sandwich
Islands have the same customs which
} are prevalent here, and the swallow
tail coat is quite prevalent there.
The low neck and short sleeve cos
tune is even carried to a greater eX-
cess, perhaps, and all opera tickets
read:
..-..-.... $500. .---.--.- .-......-...-
Admit the Bearer and Barer.
.----------.-. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
IN answer 10 a question OF my
own, the Queen said that the crops
in the Sandwich Islands were look
ing well, and that garden truck was
far in advance of what she saw here.
She said that they had pie plant
in her garden big enough to eat
before she came away, and new po-
tatoes were as big as walnuts. Still
she is enjoying herself here first rate,
and says she sees many pleasing
features about New York which will
ever decorate the tablets of her
memory.
1 thanked her for this neat little
compliment, and told her l should
always regard her in the same man.
ner.
| then wrote a little impromptu
stanza in her autograph album,
wrung her mgesty's hand and re-
tired with another suppliant and
crouching bow, which indicated a
q6ntrite spirit, but was calculated to
eceive.
I took the liberty of extending to
her majesty the freedom of the city,
and asked her to visit our press
rooms and see US squat our bnrning
thoughts into quarter of a million
copies of the paper, and all for two
cents.
1 asked her to come up any time
and read our Hawaii exchanges, for
1 know how lonely anybody can be
in a great city sometimes and how
one yearns for a glimpse of his coun-
try paper.
The Queen i well paid while she
eneigns and even away as she Is now,
with her sceptre standing idly in
the umbrella rack at home and a
large pink mosquito net thrown over
the throne, her pay Is stiIl going on
night and day.
The above is substantially all that
l said during the interview, though
the Queen said something as l came
out Of the room, escorted by the jan
itor, which 1 did not quite catch.
l did say, however, just before